Had a wonderful evening with Yan at Musha, an Izakaya (Japanese pub) place located in Santa Monica. The interior is more fancy and designy than their original branch in Torrance, which has lots of Japanese business men and ojisans there. According to Yan the menus are slightly different (Torrance’s better?). They both are really crowded […]
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January 4, 2005
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Elite Designers Against Ikea
By Joan in Siteseeinghttp://www.elitedesigners.org/ Haha just got the link from Vero. Very funny! Definitely check out the commercials! (I think the whole thing is actually an Ikea campaign in the UK?)
December 31, 2004
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Xiomara (Old Town pasadena)
By Joan in 02: PasadenaThe last entry of 2004…. Finally tried Xiomara, the more upscale sister restaurant to one of our favorites: Atlantic Cafe. But unlike Atlantic which was strictly Cuban, Xiomara is a fusion of French, Spanish, Cuban and Asian cusine. They don’t open for lunch during weekends and their dinner is too expensive for me to afford […]
December 12, 2004
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Bistro L’Hermitage (Culver City)
By Joan in 13: Culver CityWe found Bistro L’Hermitage, a very nice non-fusion French restaurant there. It’s causal, non-expensive nor pretentious, and open at lunch even on the weekend! It was a beautiful day so we sit outside (so the interior pix is taken from outside through a glass). Beside butter, the bread comes with whole jars of Jams! (3 […]
December 12, 2004
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Prado (Larchmont Village)
By Joan in 07: Mid-WilshireAt first we thought “Prada”?!? ^^;; and assume it’s Italian. But Prado is actually a latin and caribbean cuisine restaurant with cute interior. The bread is good! Scallop with mango sauce $16 Very very yummy! The sauce has so many different flavors. All the sides (Plantain, Grill Veggie, fried potato, rice) are nice too. Salmon […]
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